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Hilda Hopkins, Murder She Knit
Nobody suspects little old ladies of doing bad things... like sedating their house guests and strangling them with a machine knitted garrotte! Hilda Hopkins hits the road and outwits the police and everyone chasing her, but no one can run forever, especially not at her age and in those stockings!
Hilda can't help knitting a lifelike effigy of each of her 'Gentlemen' and it...more
Hilda can't help knitting a lifelike effigy of each of her 'Gentlemen' and it...more
Kindle Edition, 1 edition, 64 pages
Published
June 20th 2011
by StreetWise Publications
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This review was first posted @ The Australian Bookshelf
This is not typically a genre that I review, but it being a novella I thought it would be a fun, quick read- and I was right. Hilda Hopkins has finally found her calling in life- as a serial killer preying on elderly men who board at her home and then she drains them of their bank accounts. What she loves about her new career is that she can combine it with her love of knitting and she creates replica dolls in memory of the victims.
Murder Sh...more
This is not typically a genre that I review, but it being a novella I thought it would be a fun, quick read- and I was right. Hilda Hopkins has finally found her calling in life- as a serial killer preying on elderly men who board at her home and then she drains them of their bank accounts. What she loves about her new career is that she can combine it with her love of knitting and she creates replica dolls in memory of the victims.
Murder Sh...more
This is a fabulous crime thriller and excellent guide to machine knitting! The author, a handy machine knitter herself, has her anti-heroine use her craft skills to make lifelike effigies of her victims. Yes, Hilda Hopkins is a serial killer, albeit retired and widowed! As a fun black comedy like story of murder and machine knitting it can;t be beaten. It reads well and cracks along at a great pace. The police procedures are spot on and the nitty gritty details, from death by knitted garrotte to...more
I thoroughly enjoyed Hilda Hopkins, Murder, She Knit and only wish it had been longer! The main character in this novella kills off her elderly male paying guests and then hides the bodies in her coal shed, her garden and in quiet spots along the local towpath. And to commemorate them, she knits lifelike replicas!
We follow Hilda as she tries to outwit the police and, although murdering old men isn’t something to applaud, the reader does rather hope she gets away with it, if only so we can read...more
We follow Hilda as she tries to outwit the police and, although murdering old men isn’t something to applaud, the reader does rather hope she gets away with it, if only so we can read...more
Don't bother unless you like books with knitting in it. I was hopeful and rather liked the police in the story but it was a weak storyline and almost read as though there had been a challenge at a knitting group to write a mystery/murder about a knitter. Or it was written for Women's Weekly... am I being dismissive there of a magazine? Maybe - at least in the stories it prints - it used, many years ago, to have some good recipes or knitting patterns though, but haven't read it for many years.
I am a knitter and I found this book a while ago. I needed something to read and figured this would be fun. It was a romp, but it wasn't a very good romp. The characters were shallow and not very convincing. Every so often we would switch points of view with no reason to it. The ending wasn't that satisfying either since a little old lady escaped the cops.
But it was a good read for a lazy Saturday afternoon. Better than Twilight, but don't expect a deep classic read.
But it was a good read for a lazy Saturday afternoon. Better than Twilight, but don't expect a deep classic read.
This one I read just as a "quickie" read. It was. It was also a lot of fun. It is a fresh take on the Granny/Murder relationship. She doesn't solve the murders, she commits them. Then knits their likenesses!
If you want a quick, fun read, then this fits the bill.
If you want a quick, fun read, then this fits the bill.
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Free on kindle then later books in the series are about £1.50. The kind of character I'm sure a lot of crafters will recognise. Entertaining escapades with realistic detail about English cutesy towns and even a knitting show. Will def try one of the others.
A short sometimes funny story about a serial killer. It was a fresh idea but I had a hard time connecting with the main character, who was more lucky than smart.
These little books are quite fun. I started reading them while traveling. They are extremely fun, and you can read them all in a day.
cute, but pretty light on plot. definitely could have used another 20 pages or so the flesh out the story a bit more.
This was pretty good, but a lot shorter than I expected. It really left me hanging as to what comes next!
As a knitter and former owner of a kniting machine, I found this novella clever and quite delightful!
Very cute. And coincedentally along the same theme as my previous read (The Devil's Rooming House).
I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. I don't know if I would read the secon book.
good short story. witty and dry humor. looking forward to the second one
OK - This was funny and not what I expected. A novelette. Quite fun.
Fun, cute, read. Not award-worthy, but mindless, easy fun.
This is a quick little read that I thoroughly enjoyed.
This was a cute book and a fast read.
a great wee fun Novella :) loved it!
This isn't the cozy with a knitting circle that I expected from the title, but a nice read anyway. The difference is that the knitter is the villain - and the reader learns that immediately (so I'm not giving any secrets away here). This is very British-sounding with pounds instead of dollars, but published in Australia. The reader, by turns, lives in the knitter's skin as well as the skin of the police woman out to find her. However, the evil-doer's mind isn't pure evil, so she doesn't give me...more
it was different for a knitting I was expecting more hand knitting not machine. This book will hold your interest.
Silly, quick read.
Hilariously silly.
A good romp
a good read a little like cross dressed to kill.
This is an interesting quick read. You just never know who your neighbors are and what they are capable of. I will have to check into the rest of this little series.
This was a free Nook book . I started it last night finished it today . I really enjoyed reading this short book .
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